Reminder: You Still Owe George Lucas $90
Well, maybe you don’t, but I sure do. I have to buy the Star Wars Blu-rays, advertised yet again with this new trailer, even though I don’t want them. I certainly don’t need them. And paying that much just to get the original trilogy — because I sure as hell don’t want the prequels — make it exceedingly not cost-effective. So it’s a no-brainer for me to not buy them.
Except there’s those fucking deleted scenes from the original trilogy, that I would love to finally own for the first time. And all those OT behind-the-scenes footage, which almost certainly only come with the full 6-movie set (or at least some of them, probably the good ones). And god only knows what Lucas will and won’t include on the next Star Wars sets he releases, because it’s been different every time, so my only chance to own these particular features for sure is to buy it now. Fuck. Fuuuuuuuck. (Via First Showing)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.